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well, it is the top of the hour at "cnn newsroom." >> 15 days now until election day and candidates are out battling for every ballot. in the florida governor's race, democrat charlie crist hopes tonight's debate will help shift the momentum as he tries to unseat ron desantis. in pennsylvania, there's a debate tomorrow in the much tighter senate race there. polls show the democrat john fetterman has a small lead over his republican rival, mehmet oz. >> nearly 7.3 million americans have already cast a ballot in 39 states with the early vote turnout in the battleground, georgia breaking records. cnn has just released new poll averages showing just how tight the race for senate is in critical swing states of pennsylvania and wisconsin. president biden just made another pitch to voters coming up on november 8th. that's the midterm election day. he just spoke at democratic

party headquarters in d.c. to make his closing argument. >> cnn's senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is here. phil, what is that closing argument? >> reporter: you know, what's interesting and we actually saw this a little bit on friday, guys. the president starting to take a sharper political tone and trying to frame things in the way white house advisers and democrats feel will be most effective in this closing period, even fully acknowledging that polls that seem to be shifting toward democrats over the course of the summer have shifted the other way. the effort now from the president and top democrats is to get them to head back their way. the president predicts that's something that could happen. he's trying to frame things as a choice between democrats and republicans, not a referendum on the biden administration and democratic control of congress. that would be fighting against history, a tide of history that traditionally sees the president and the incumbent party in their first midterm take pretty steep losses. the president saying, though, think about what republicans would do in power. that is the pitch. this is how he framed it. >> democrats are building a better america for everyone.

with an economy that grows from the bottom up and the middle out, where everyone does well. republicans are doubling down on the mega-maga trickle down economics that benefits the very wealthy, failed the country before and will fail it again if they win. >> and guys, there's no question when you talk to democratic officials. they understand there is a tough hill to climb right now, really punctuated by concern about the economy that you see in poll after poll after poll and in particular, concern about inflation that remains at a four-decade high. the president was in d.c., and there's not a concern about the d.c. delegate that he would need to help and step in on. the d.c. is home to critical infrastructure, and it'll include the president getting out a little bit more in the country making some campaign stops as well as some official stops to tout what the administration has done on the policy side of things. some of the major legislative wins. there's no question though, democrats right now feel like they need to shift things quickly to be able to maintain their majorities in the house and the senate.

the president though, seems optimistic that he thinks they can, guys. >> all right. 15 days. phil mattingly, thanks. well, control of the u.s. house could come down to a few key suburban districts, districts republicans are focused on winning back after they were lost during the trump presidency. republicans only need a net gain of five seats to control the house. >> cnn's maeve reston joins us now. watching the burbs for us. what are you watching? >> reporter: during the trump years, they lost a lot of ground in a lot of these suburban districts, and so there's real fight in the suburbs now, and one of the issues we're seeing pop up in a lot of these -- a lot of these districts is the crime issue. this is obviously a, you know, been a huge issue following the death of george floyd, and in some of these suburban districts, you are seeing republicans, particularly in

cities -- in suburban districts around cities like portland and minneapolis who are really playing up these -- the crime message. sort of playing on people's fears after they watched, you know, many nights of protests and rioting, particularly in minneapolis and the violence that we saw in portland, and so in these races in the two oregon districts in particular, the republicans have been trying to tie their democratic opponents to inaccurately often, to the movement to defund the police and of course, that's been just a big issue everywhere for democrats, even though most democrats did not agree with those policy calls by some on the progressive left. you're also seeing those same themes play out in minnesota's second district with angie craig whose record on police funding has also been inaccurately attacked. so that is -- those issues are

huge this cycle and then obviously issues -- the issue of inflation is dominating every single suburban race and just being out in nevada, talking to a lot of these suburban voters, there is no issue that matters more to them than what they're seeing with inflation and gas prices and i was in nevada's third congressional district where suzy lee is looking to defend her seat against a challenge from april becker, and that has been such a fascinating race because it's a state where you have a competitive governor's race, a competitive senate race, and the money is just flooding into these nevada house districts, hitting the democrats on inflation saying that they haven't done enough to bring prices down, and we'll see how that all plays out in november. >> just so important to have you out there in the suburbs talking too these voters. maeve reston, really fascinating. thank you. >> reporter: thank you. joining us now to discuss,

cnn political commentator and republican strategist allen stewart and democratic strategist maria cardona, co-host of the podcast "hot mics from left to right." new episode out on gas prices which is exactly where we're going to start. it's the perfect segue from maeve to you two. trying to win back the suburbs on crime and inflation. maria, what do you think about that framing of the race? >> well, what i see is certainly republicans doing it in a disingenuous way. shocker, right? look. there's nothing normal about this election, victor. if it were, we wouldn't even be talking about democrats being competitive in this election cycle because as you know, history and conventional wisdom, after a president's first term, the party in power normally loses seats and houses of congress if they're in control, but the reason we're not there right now and we're talking about how competitive these

races are, victor is there's nothing normal about the candidates that are running. what i see is a democratic party that is focused on what voters want. yes, inflation is a critical issue. that's why you see president biden and the democrats focused on what they have done and what they continue to do to actually try to help struggling, working class and middle class families. republicans can only point the finger at democrats. that's the only thing they have. they have no solutions, and victor and bianna, don't take my word for it. look at history. democrats have been the ones under democratic administrations where the economy has surged and has flourished. bush 1, bush 2, recession. trump, recession. after every single one of those, you had the democratic president and administration and the congresses bring in a flourishing economy that is working for everyone, and that is what democrats are focused on. >> well, alice, let me get you

to weigh in because among the findings in the key battleground states of wisconsin and pennsylvania, the republicans seem to have a broader advantage among voters focused on economic issues. this is a top priority for so many issues and it's a priority the president said is his top domestic issue as well. what are the specifics that these candidates are laying out to counter what they say day-to-day under a biden administration? >> well, i think you make an important point to distinguish different states and different districts and different races are different priorities, but we are seeing crime as one of the key issues. crime in many cities across this country. what we're seeing in wisconsin, their voters are concerned with that as well as economy as well as inflation. in pennsylvania in the key senate race with mehmet oz and john fetterman, crime in the philadelphia suburbs is completely out of control and fetterman has a record on the board of paroles that has been soft on crime and mehmet oz in a

debate this week will focus on this, but with all due respect to my friend, maria, i think she is really missing the point with democrats. we have had president biden touting what he sees as accomplishments for his administration, but he's completely out of touch with americans and we've heard that -- not just me. don't take my word for it. bernie sanders said that over the weekend as well as democrat pollster stanley greenberg. he says that the democrats have missed the mark when it comes to showing compassion and concern about middle america and their concerns about the economy as well as inflation, and if they don't show in the next 15 days a real economic plan to go against republicans, it's going to be doomsday for democrats and regardless of what president biden says, this is a referendum on his administration and republicans and independents have a choice whether they can continue that or not, and we're going to see in 15 days republicans are going to offer that change that many people want. >> alice, what's the republican plan? >> first and foremost is not to

continue to spend money. it's not to spend money like the current democrats have been doing so. work on lowering taxes and really putting an emphasis on energy plans that will help reduce the cost of gas even more, and also work on improving the supply chain which has been a huge problem with regard to getting goods and services onto our grocery store shelves, but the number one thing that republicans are going to do is put a rein on outlandish spending and reduce government federal regulations that have been a hamper on a lot of what needs to get done in this country, but outrageous spending is the number one thing republicans are going to do. >> we should also point out that there was extensive -- the growth of the deficit during the trump years even before the pandemic, so when republicans say they want the reins of the economy back, we can look back a few years and see how much was spent before we got into a crisis situation. maria. >> yeah.

>> let me ask a different topic here. i want to get to something happening tonight. charlie crist debating ron desantis. he's eight points behind in a recent poll. what can he do to turn this around? this might be his last shot. >> i think he can show, and this is what democrats are doing across the board, how extremist of a governor ron desantis has been, will continue to be, and what an extremist maga agenda he is following, and look. in addition to the inflation and to the economic issues which by the way, joe biden is absolutely talking about with compassion. that's the best thing that he does is talk about things with compassion and will continue to do that. he and the democrats are also focused on underscoring how a republican house and senate will take away our freedoms, our liberties, our privacy, and will be a huge threat to democracy, and this is what i'm talking about, victor, about how up in the air and what a jump shot

this election is, and frankly shouldn't be if republicans really were offering sane, credible solutions because we would see history repeat itself as i said at the very beginning, but we're not. therefore democrats do have a chance to underscore how women are second class citizens today in this country and how people like ron desantis and all of the candidates for senate and for the house will continue that maga extremist agenda. >> i hear you, maria. >> and that'll work for democrats. >> however, when we look at the polls across the board specifically we go to state races, the economy, inflation are what -- at the top of these lists of what people think is most important. yes, we may see in some states double digit registries for abortion rights and democracy, but when you look at number one, it's the economy. >> that's right, and democrats and biden -- >> we have to wrap it here. we have to wrap it here. >> we'll have you back.

>> maria, alice, hot mics from left to right. thank you very much. good to see you. >> continue it there. >> yes. thank you. well, just moments ago, top justice department officials assured voters that they were taking election security measures ahead of the upcoming midterms. >> the doj says top law enforcement agencies will do everything possible to make sure the midterm elections were not impacted by voter intimidation or election interference. >> as far as the election itself, the threat of any nation state to our election system to influence, to interfere is something that we have to all remain vigilant about. in many ways, malign foreign influence, whether it's the russian government, chinese go government or other governments, is not an election cycle issue, but a 365-day a year problem. >> the justice department has an obligation to prevent, to guarantee a free and fair vote

by everyone who is qualified to vote, and will not permit voters to be intimidated. >> well, the justice department made these comments just a few moments ago. also announced charges against more than a dozen alleged chinese spies in three different cases involving spy recruitment in the u.s. well, the january 6th committee believes former president donald trump will comply with their subpoena. vice chair liz cheney telling nbc's "meet the press" she expects trump to testify and turn over the requested documents. >> cnn's sara murray joins us. the november 13th deadline for testimony under oath, only a couple of weeks away. there seems to be some optimism from congresswoman cheney. what are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, i think that the committee has been very optimistic publicly about their odds of hearing from the former president in part because, you know, they think he should want to appear before them, you know, to at least answer for his

actions or perhaps to try to make some attempt to clear his name, but take a listen to what liz cheney had to say about this over the weekend. >> it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline and seriousness that it deserves. we are not going to allow the president -- he's not going to turn this into a circus. this isn't going to be, you know, his first debate against joe biden and the circus and the food fight that that became. this is far too serious set of issues. >> reporter: so she's saying she wants to see the former president testifying under oath and she also said there are many, many options, alternatives for them if he does not comply. she didn't lay out what those were. we still don't know how the trump team is going to respond to this. we got a statement from the lawyers last week essentially saying they're going to look into this, analyze it, decide how to respond. we're waiting to see what that response looks like. >> sara murray, thank you. an alarming report that america's children are falling behind in education. the largest decline ever in

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well, we have some sad breaking news to bring you. beloved actor and comedy legend leslie jordan has died at the age of 67. jordan was a familiar face on so many popular shows like "will and grace" and "american horror story." >> recently he became a social media sensation with those funny instagram videos that carried us through the pandemic. >> well, [ bleep ].

what are y'all doing? this is awful. it's still march. how many days in march? when is april going to [ bleep ] get here? what -- my mother hollering up the steps asking me who i'm talking to. i'm talking to my friends, mama! quit bothering me. how much more of this can i take? >> oh, that was the first one that i saw and i felt it. how many days in march? jordan even appeared right here on cnn's new year's eve countdown ringing in 2022 with anderson cooper and andy cohen. >> cnn's khloe molaz joins us now. he made us laugh when we needed it. chloe, what more are we learning about his death? >> reporter: so sad and

incredibly unexpected. we know that leslie jordan was involved in a fatal car accident in hollywood earlier today. we don't know what exactly led to the car crash. we believe that he was driving and alone, perhaps experiencing some sort of a medical episode. we're still waiting to confirm those details, but like you said, he brought so much laughter and joy into so many people's lives. i met him this past new year's eve when i was a correspondent in times square. we had, like, dressing rooms near each other and he was just always talking about his mother, peggy anne who passed away recently. he grew up in chattanooga, tennessee and he was always talking about how he loved his mother, his family. he had a lot of brothers and sisters. i remember first discovering leslie of course, on "will and grace" where he played beverly leslie. he won an emmy award for that role on the show. he's also talked about how he, you know, came out as lgbtq, how

he came out as gay and that for awhile, you know, it caused some tension with him and himself because he was grappling with his very religious upbringing, and he's talked also in the past in previous interviews about his struggle with addiction and alcoholism, but always looking to teach and to tell others about how he overcame personal obstacles in his own life, and yes. the fun, sweet, endearing videos that we all came to know and love during the covid-19 pandemic, and in those videos he would talk so often about his mother and his family and god and religion. he also loved music. he brought -- released a gospel album not too long ago. he was a judge on "the masked singer." i mean, also let me point out because he was a busy guy, currently he was on a tv show called "call me cat." so, you know, he's been very, very active in television like i said, winning an emmy award for

his role on "will and grace," and always just bringing joy and laughter. such a kind human being. >> and a true talent. i just imagine so many people now going back and will be watching his old videos. our thoughts are with his family. chloe melas, thank you so much. an alarming new report is more evidence of the toll the coronavirus pandemic took on children across this country. now this is called the nation's report card, and it found that fourth and eighth graders had the biggest ever test score decline in math since the assessment started more than 30 years ago. >> this is during some of their most formative years. their reading skills dropped significantly. u.s. education secretary miguel cardona told cnn today it's imperative to turn this around. >> this is not a wakeup call to double down on our efforts and improve education even before the pandemic, then i don't know what will. we need to make sure we have highly qualified teachers in every classroom, we have

programs for students after school, in the summer. we know what to do. we just have to make sure we have the urgency across the country to get it done. >> cnn's gabe cohen has more on what this new data shows. >> reporter: an alarming snapshot of learning loss from the pandemic. new test results from the nation's report card show in most states fourth and eighth graders are falling behind in reading and math. the math scores are historic, the worst decline ever recorded with roughly 25% of fourth graders and 38% of eighth graders performing below the basic level, the lowest of the three achievement levels for the test. students who are already struggling in school showed the most dramatic dropoff. secretary of education miguel cardona calling the results appalling and unacceptable. >> they were isolated for a year and a half to two years. that's a huge, huge problem. >> reporter: michelle burke is

an eighth grade teacher on long island and has a daughter in eighth grade. >> my daughter is struggling in math exponentially. a lot of the things we're seeing emotionally, behaviorally, are putting a huge strain on what you are seeing in the classroom. huge strain. >> reporter: the findings come more than a month after similar results showing math and reading scores for 9-year-olds fell by a level not seen in decades. the federal government is pumping billions in relief funds into districts, requiring them to spend at least 20% on learning loss. schools nationwide have been trying to hire more staff, but with teacher burnout and fewer new teachers, many schools face a teacher shortage, especially in rural areas and those with more low income families and students of color. >> good afternoon. i.d.s please. >> reporter: at this high school

in arizona, some classes have more than 70 students, and in other rooms, paraeducators are teaching lessons prepared by a certified teacher. >> i struggled with math and if i was sitting in a classroom, i needed help and i needed someone to break it down a different way, if there's no one that has the content knowledge to do that, i'm going to be shutting down. i think many of our students might be shutting down as well. >> reporter: now the education secretary says they're proposing a 21% increase in the education budget, but victor, bianna, in the short-term you have kids dealing with mental health and behavioral issues and a lot of teachers burned out in schools that are understaffed, and so some experts think the problems that these text results illustrate may not be resolved for years. >> gabe coenhad, thank you. joining me now to talk about this is arnie duncan. he was the secretary of education under president obama. secretary duncan, thank you so much for joining us. it struck me to hear secretary

cardona call this a wakeup call because i did cover education during covid and every expert said covid only exacerbated a problem that already existed, whether it's teacher shortages, whether it's low scoring tests for students. so is it fair to call this a wakeup call? >> well, i think it's maybe more accurate term would be a call to action that this is extraordinarily disturbing news, but to your point it's not news. we know how devastating the pandemic was for all kids. we know the kids that were the furthest behind got hit the hardest and we can't afford to wait years. we need a yearlong sprint between this fall and next fall coming back to school on an individual basis, child by child to do everything we can to help them catch up. this is about whether you graduate from high school, eventually. this is about whether you get a good job eventually and i worry about our democracy fraying at the edges if we don't give every child a chance to reach their

true academic potential. the sense of urgency couldn't be i higher. >> as far as the last couple of years, you can't say the money wasn't there. thanks to the american rescue plan, $123 million which broke down to $2,400 per student was spread throughout the country to help bring students back during covid and post-covid, and as we heard from gabe's piece, that average is about a 20% threshold that were set for districts to focus on education. was that too low of a threshold? should it be higher than 20%? >> i'm sorry. the volume is muffled, so i wasn't able to hear the question. i really apologize for that, but the only thing i would add is we know how to help kids catch up. it's high intensity constutorin. we can do this physically and virtually. the challenge around teacher shortages, we can work with college students. we can work with retirees and folks in other professions who want to help out. we can do this after school.

we can do this on saturdays. i know students will be mad when i say this, but we don't need the summers off for awhile now. we can use it to help students catch up and our goal, our finish line has to be returning back to school in next fall in 2023, closing this gap as much as we can, and i've seen studies that show that the bottom 10% of students fell behind a four times faster rate than the top 10% of students. we cannot have these divides getting in larger. it's too much at stake for us. i apologize because i can't hear your question, but just, you know, districts and schools should work on a child by child basis with their families, come up with a plan and execute that plan to help kids catch up. >> well, it is a crisis. i'm sorry we're having some communications issues, but just to give our voters a sense of the disconnect and the increase in disparity across racial and socioeconomic lines, black and hispanic students were well behind before the pandemic and they've dropped even further.

to give you one example in detroit, nearly 1 in 2 school children live in poverty. only 6% were proficient in reading or math, and that fell to 3%. that is unacceptable in the richest country in the world. we'll have to have you back when we fix the sound and we'll talk about this in more detail. thank you so much for joining us though. crime on new york's transit system is up more than 40% from last year. next why mayor eric adams says part of the problem is the perception of crime. d time. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's a pool party. ♪ good times. insurance! ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ what makes every stearns & foster so incredibly comfortable? the attention to detail, that combines time honored craftsmanship... ...and luxurious merials... ...for a mattress th feels as good as it looks. now, enjoy king sized comfort for a queen sized price on select stearns & foster mattresse ♪

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in new york, police continue to search for a man who pushed a commuter from a subway platform onto the train tracks. you can see in surveillance video that the suspect looks around before then running up to the victim and shoving him over. >> he was hurt, but he was not hit by a train. this is the latest incident as new york officials are trying to crack down on transit crime. mayor eric adams argues that part of the problem is perception of crime. >> we have an average of less than six crimes a day on the

subway system, with 3.5 million riders, but if you write your story based on a narrative that you are going to look at the worst of those six crimes and put it on the front pages of your paper every day, people are going to start to feel what david patterson just stated. so i have to deal with those six crimes a day, felony crimes, and the perception of fear. >> so you're saying that the crime problem in this city is more perception than reality? >> no. it's a combination of both. >> cnn's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller is with us now. john, do you think the mayor has a point here about perception? is that valid? >> reporter: so the mayor has statistically and incredibly accurate point about perception versus reality, but try to tell a crime victim that that's perception, and when you see a video like the one we just saw, that has a very powerful effect

on people. if you look at subway crime right now, the mayor said 3.5 million riders, that's up to 3.8 million today. your chances of being the victim of one of those serious crimes is about 1 in 600,000. your chances of being hit by a car is about 1 in 4,000. it's safer on the subway than it is on the street, but what we're seeing is these particularly jarring crimes. the man pushed on the tracks or back in last january, a financial services person who was shoved in front of a train and killed, or the analyst who was on the train and an individual walked up and shot him who didn't know him. we're seeing these crime connected to people with mental health issues who are acting out in the system and that's getting a lot of attention. >> it's the world's oldest and largest subway and train station with so many stops and cars and statistically it is i would say safe given just the numbers and

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u.s. and ukrainian officials are disputing russia's claim that ukraine plans to use a so-called dirty bomb on their own people, and they add that russia could be using this as a false flag operation, an excuse to escalate the war. >> they've used these before. just moments ago the u.s. warned russia it would face fierce consequences if it unleashed a radioactive device. nic robertson is there for us. what can you tell us? >> reporter: there's a concerted effort coming from the united states, the uk and france to steer russia away from any escalation. they're saying that russia's allegations are transparently false allegations and saying that the world will see if russia tries to use these a accus accusations, these false accusations as a pretext for escalation. there's a great deal of concern

about why russia is saying this right now. we know that they're losing on the battlefield. we know that they have been targeting ukraine's electricity supplies recently, but this seems to be a new narrative that's sustaining traction in russia. they're not backing down. t t they're saying that the nato leaders who are hearing this from the ukrainians are mistaken or misunderstood, and over the past four days we have had a remarkable amount of military diplomacy. secretary of defense lloyd austin speaking with his russian counterpart, three days ago, and then just yesterday lloyd austin speaking with him again. ben wallace, the british defense secretary doing the same. the french defense secretary, the turkish defense secretary all doing the same, and then today general mark milley speaking with his russian counterpart as well, and the british military chief of staff also speaking with that same russian counterpart.

it is absolutely out with the context to of this war so far that russia's military top brass have had so many conversations. it's impossible to know what it means. it certainly shows the determination of ukraine's western partners to make sure russia understands not to escalate at the moment, but the real concern here is in ukraine that russia has cried wolf before, and when russia has cried wolf as president zelenskyy has said, when russia says ukraine is going to do this, president zelenskyy, that generally means that russia has already prepared for such an act. >> yeah. the warning from the u.s. and from western leaders has been staunch. he killed four people at a michigan high school last year. now the 16-year-old shooter has pleaded guilty to murder and faces life in prison without

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the memy teen who killed four, wounded seven at his high school pleaded guilty to murder. >> he had 24 charges against him. the 16-year-old initially pleaded not guilty as his lawyers prepared an insanity defense. jean casarez is in michigan with more on today's hearing. take us inside what happened today? >> first of all, i talked to people inside the courtroom and there was a lot of surprise

there because they had given notice in january they were intending to have him plead insanity. if he had gone to trial and found not, it doesn't mean he walks out the door. he would go to a hospital that is supervised, a mental hospital. now pleading guilty, he will go to the department of corrections, the general prison system, but the courtroom was packed. victims families, they were in those seats. law enforcement on both sides and the back f of the courtroom. when he walked out, he was completely shackled. they undid one of his handcuffs so he could swear and the judge wanted to assess this was a free and voluntary plea. the judge went question by question. you could tell he was processing

the thought then answered the question. at one point, the prosecution started asking him very directed questions. listen to a little bit of that. >> is it true the fire weapon was purchased by your father, james crumbley? >> yes. >> is it true it was not kept in a locked container or safe. >> yes, it was not locked. >> the next thing will be a miller hearing. that is what it's called after a legendary u.s. supreme court case from 2012. that hearing will be in february and the u.s. supreme court has ruled it's unconstitutional alone to allow a juvenile to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole if there are no other possibilities. that's what this hearing will be about. >> thank you, jean.

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